Starbucks launches olive oil coffee

And other stories from the stranger side of life

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Starbucks is launching a line of olive oil-infused drinks in Italy, reported the BBC. CEO Howard Schultz said olive oil's “unexpected, velvety, buttery flavour... enhanced the coffee and lingers beautifully on the palate”, adding that "in over 40 years, I can't remember a moment in time where I've been more excited, more enthused”. Other strange coffees that have appeared over the years include Kopi Luwak coffee, made from beans that have been eaten and defecated by a cat, and mushroom coffee.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.